Solution Focused Schools Unlimited
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Solution Focused Schools Unlimited
Learn about the solution focused approach as it applies to every situation in every school. From classroom management, RTI and team meetings, parent conferences, student behavior or mental health concerns, this approach and process will guide every educator and counselor into a land of possibilities...
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Helping Teachers Show their Humanity! A Solution Focused Classroom Management Approach that Works!
Teachers often mistake control for being firm and stern and when that doesn't work, they become firmer and, more stern. Frustrated, they ask for help...
Get Straight to the Solution! Two Case Studies that Helped Students Succeed
This podcast addresses how the solution focused mindset helped two school counselors to deal with complicated problems in two real case studies. Learn...
The Solution Focused Teacher: Get Your Power Back!
In this first podcast of a new series, "The Solution Focused Teacher," learn about a new approach that can help you get your power back in your classr...
Get the Solution Focused School Counseling Mindset NOW!
The school year has started and so have the requests. This podcast introduces the solution focused approach as a mindset, not just strategies to try o...
Finding Sherlock! 3 Ways to Shrink School Violence Now
This episode takes a different approach in conceptualizing how to keep students safe in a world of uncertainties. You will learn three ways that do no...
Bypassing Resistance and Finding Successes Everywhere!
This podcast will cover 3 constructs that contribute to the solution focused mindset. The ripple effect, the ideas that resistance can be conquered t...
Becoming Tinkerbell: Transform Resistance, Reluctance and Frustration into Possibilities
This podcast uses the comical Tinkerbell story to illustrate how the solution focused approach can help students, parents or teachers begin to realize...
Need a Miracle? Create a Miracle Worker Team!
This podcast will share how to create a Miracle Worker team, (MW)composed of teachers who learn the solution focused process and work as consultants t...
Solution Building Made Easy- How to start off the school year well and work less!
This episode explains three strategies that will empower students, find peace in overcrowded classrooms and expand solution building techniques with e...
Engage or Disengage? What is our purpose?
This unique podcast was created after I witnessed a disturbing situation in a classroom. Recording the podcast in my car afterwards, I share ideas on...
Planning for Next Year? Make it Easy! Let Your Students and Staff Lead the Way.
It’s time to review what we did and plan for next year. That goes for school counselors, teachers, administrators and…students. This podcast will shar...
Inside the Mindset- a tour of basic ideas and applications to school situations
The solution focused approach is not about technique or strategies. It is much more than that. it is about how we think of people- our mindset. This p...
Let’s End School Violence with a New Mindset
There were 29 school shootings in 2021. Our strategies to protect our schools is noble but not effective in putting a stop to school violence. This po...
How to Create Solutions from Exceptions
Exceptions are times when things go slightly better in our lives. In schools, exceptions are always there but are often overshadowed by a problem focu...
Harvesting Success with Teams and Team Players
Learn how to create a Miracle Workers’ team in your school to help carry out the solution focused approach in team meetings. Listen to a classroom gui...
Want Motivated, Passionate Students? Give Them a Purpose.
This podcast refers to “The Power of Purpose Driven Schools, an article by Mark Oppenheimer (WSJ 8-1-21) and explains how the questions of the solutio...
Give Students a Voice! Planning Academic or Behavioral Strategies Together With Students: A collaborative podcast with Cheryl Kretz
Every day, in schools around the world, educators construct strategies for student problems with the purpose of helping their students to succeed. It...
It’s Re-Entry Time- A Special Podcast for Going Back to School
Our students are returning this fall after seventeen months away. How we greet them will impact how they re-enter the classroom environment and settle...
Pack Your Bags! We Are Almost at the Finish Line
The school year is coming to a close. You have worked diligently to be at your best. How do you hope the last few weeks go, so your students recall yo...
The Wonder of Wonderfullnesses
Parents often come in upset about their child/teen and have concerns and complaints that can veer you toward problem focused land. By inquiring about...
Becoming a solution focused genius
Something is changing around us- in a good way! This podcast shares two real life cases where students surprised their teachers and counselor. The opp...
Solution Focused +Narrative Therapy=More Possibilities Ahead!
This podcast gently adds some narrative therapy magic to the action oriented solution focused approach when working with school clients who seem overc...
Self Care for Everyone
Self care used to be an indulgence but now it is essential! This podcast takes the listener through an exercise to invigorate their day. Additionally,...
Engaging the Disengaged Student
Students often show their lack of understanding of academics or emotional turmoil by acting out. Those students need us more than ever. Yet too often,...
Special Edition! Hear details about the Virtual Solution Focused School Conference Oct 2-3-4. It's almost here!
Where else can you hear 15 Solution Focused Experts on Schools from 5 countries, and get up to 15 CEU's for the early bird price of $129? This podcas...
Back to school we go and...we know what to do...we've done it before!
This episode will provide specific questions and approaches for school counselors, teachers and administrators to use when starting back to school, wh...
Ok, but can the solution focused approach work with this? YES!
When people learn about the solution focused approach and begin to apply it to certain situations at schools, they still get stuck at times when situa...
Pushing the Hope Re-Set Button
This episode describes how the solution focused mindset can encourage us to watch our biases toward others and reach out to them, whether in our perso...
How to Talk So Parents Will Listen and How to Listen So Parents Will Talk!
This podcast gives a case from the forthcoming 2nd edition of Parenting Toward Solutions- a book written for parents that gives them the chance to use...
Finding Relief from Grief and Loss
This episode includes ideas, developed from the article by Michael White, “Saying hullo again: The incorporation of the lost relationship in the resol...
The Rise of The Resistant Student and Ways to Get Around the Resistance!
Whether you do virtual counseling or face to face, students who are not engaged are challenging. This podcast takes a look at what Maslow said about s...
So, where did my life go? Creating an alternative story during challenges
This episode talks about disappointments and sad situations that intrude in students’ lives. While recorded during the Pandemic, the steps shared can...
The expert within you: Pushing through the pandemic
This episode describes qualities that can ultimately help us work with students, clients, teachers and parents as we are challenged by the pandemic. L...
Getting Fit in a Time of Crisis
When crises occur, most people panic and reach out to others for assistance in adapting to change. This episode takes the solution focused approach an...
Got Test Anxiety? Ask a Student for Help!
This episode focuses on how students can generate their own strategies for eliminating test anxiety and other challenges through the solution focused...
Administrator Relief! How to lessen your load and improve student behavior
This episode shares some information about using the solution focused approach to decrease student suspensions and misbehaviors. Steps to take are inc...
Too many referrals and not enough time? Try this!
Counselors and staff often see the same students and teachers and hear from the same parents. Learn two steps to follow to lessen the number of referr...
Watch out! Successes on the way!
This episode describes a case that led to the development of a systemic intervention that the author developed. The intervention increases the success...
Make it Brief- 3 steps to a solution focused conversation
Learn 3 steps to use in conversations with school clients (students, teachers and parents) to help create a preferred future of where success becomes...
It Takes a Miracle
Using the miracle question takes time and patience. This episode explains how to use it with elementary and secondary students. For more questions and...